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Monday, October 14, 2013

A SIMPLE MAN

(This is a
Short story and could be true; full of intrigue and suspense)

My continued stories will resume soon.

Our Son Billy was a genius at Surveillance
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First off I must tell you I
am a simple man, one who rightly so could be called naïve.

You see the thing is even
though I am as described still myintellect is above normal in some areas and because of that I have made
more than a lot of money.

In that one area I have
excelled. A good woman married me; I say
she married me because had it been left up to me I would never have been able
to find such a woman.

A mutual friend introduced us
and she took over at that point and guided me into the wedded bliss I have
enjoyed all these years.

We have one son who is
exceptional in himself.As a young child
he started tinkering with electronics and gadgets of such. By the time he was ten his whole room was
filled with things that he had built. In
addition he had sound proofed the basement so he could play sounds.He had to use ear plugs in order to be in the
room.

By the time he was twelve he
had patented several of his devices and sold them to corporations who
manufactured similar items. Although he
was making money, it wasn’t his main interest in doing what he was doing.

I don’t want you to think I’m bragging on him
I’m just stating the facts as they exist.

Getting back the story I
started out to tell you about.If I was
a mystery writer I would describe it as a story of intrigue or something along
those lines.

As it happened my wife and I
joined a country club whose name you would recognize if I stated it. This wasn’t my idea, but my wife said we would
look odd if we with all our wealth didn’t mingle with the snobbish people in
our genre whatever that meant.

Anyhow over the next year I
became included with a group that I could almost palate after a bit of bitters.

There was this group of five
men including me that were drawn into the circumstances I am now going to
relate to you.

We were in the billiard room
at the club when Sam one of the men was looking distressed and another, Joe
inquired as to what his trouble was.

After some urging he began
telling his tale of woe. Now I must tell
you this; out of necessity I mingled with this group but I wasn’t really a part
of them for I wasn’t interested in their private affairs. It seems Sam believed his wife was being unfaithful
to him and didn’t know what to do.

After a long discussion the
men decided to help Sam out of his dilemma and they included me in the effort
to help him. I tried to come up with
some excuse to tactfully exclude myself from what I felt was none of my
business, but the five of them wouldn’t hear of it.

As best I could understand
the plan one of us was going to try to get Sam’s wife in a compromising
position and through the skill of enticement find out she if she would scum to
the advances of the selected Lothario.

After some discussion Joe was
selected because he was very smooth when it came to women according to my wife.
Each of us had to pledge ourselves to
secrecy and to see it through to the end.

As you might expect I tried
to omit myself from such a pledge but it was to no avail.

Again the five of them beat back all of my
objections. The date was set when Joe
was to start his onslaught on the suspected wife Marilyn.

I had never done anything of
this nature and if I hadn’t pledged myself to secrecy I would have gotten
advice from my steadfast wife. As you
can see my naïveté is beginning to show itself.

As I became unsure of my part
in this charade, I asked my son who was eighteen at the time if he could do
something for me. As I gave him the
details of what I wanted, he said that will be easy and added a few new twists
to it.

He had to get access to Sam’s
home so when we were all at a party my son Billy (who now insisted that in
public I call him William) got into the house and installed a series of cameras
in every room with audio.

His cameras were able to film
in the dark and the audio was super sensitive.

In addition he gave me some
equipment that was heat sensitive and would show images inside of walls not
unlike negatives from an old camera for use if they went to a motel.

The time for Joe to do his
stuff was nearing and I had been checked out on all Billy had set up. I had tested it out and saw some embarrassing
things between Sam and Marilyn.

Embarrassing or not the die
had been cast and I was ready to follow through with my plan. Joe showed up at the prescribed time when Sam
was supposedly gone off on business.

Marilyn feigned being
surprised by Joe showing up but invited him in. She offered him a drink and she joined in with
him. The talk was little more than chit
chat at first but after a couple more drinks it became a lot more enticing
innuendoes. Joe finally “made his move” and she began to accept his advances
but then she stopped.

By this time Joe was all but
foaming at the mouth but she said, “How do I know you aren’t going to tell Sam
and get me into trouble?” As he began to
put his hands on her, he came out and told her everything about how Sam was
testing her and he was part of the plan along with the rest of us.

Marilyn said she was glad he
told her and became receptive to his advances. Afterward he promised not to
reveal what happened and promised to give Sam a false report.

After we and Sam had heard
what Joe reported to us Sam said maybe I was wrong about her, but wanted to go
through with the plan as they had laid it out. I was thinking Joe wasn’t very truthful and
couldn’t be trusted.

The next woo-er was going to
be Lewis. Lewis was a salesman and could
sell anything after selling himself to you. His approach was calling Marilyn and said he
thought he left his phone there. It must
have fallen out of his pocket and could he come over and look for it. She said, “Sure but Sam is out of town on
business.”

He said, “Well then, I guess
it will just be you and me.”

She said, “That’s alright
with me if it’s okay with you.” He said I’ll be right over.

When he arrived she reached out and took him
by the hand. He thought this is going to
be easier than I thought. Things went
much like they did with Joe.

After a while he was telling
her the plan we all cooked up and with the promise of many tryst’s he told her
all.

And so it was Lewis met with
us and said she was solid and faithful to the end type of person. He said he couldn’t entice her with any of his
tried and true methods.

A week later it was Mosel’s
turn to try his skills but during the week when Marilyn was out I had Billy go
in and check on one of the cameras and he discovered some additional cameras
that were not his and were not near as sophisticated as his equipment.

Also they were not very well
hidden and they had to have been installed after he had placed his or he would
found them when he tested the house for bugs.

This was a new revelation to
me. She was filming everything and she
was doing for some reason. Mosel had called and was there at the agreed time.

She told him Sam had to work
late but they would have time to themselves and should get started. He thought; get started with what. As I watched the proceedings I blushed as I
watched him for he was as clumsy as I am when it came to love making.

If she hadn’t been the one
who made the moves her film would have been wasted. He like his predecessors spilled his guts and
told all.

Finally there were only two
of us left to try to test Sam’s wife. I
insisted that I go last so Raven went next.I must admit Raven was very cautious and only moved in when he was sure
she was going to be receptive.

It took her longer to get him
to reveal what was going on but after the bed time and promise for many more
adventures, like the others he told all and promised to give her a good report
back to Sam and us.

Then it came my turn. I called and made an appointment during which
she tried to warm me up with some sweet talk.

I have purposefully excluded
all the stuff that went on between Sam and Marilyn during this period for there
conversations about their plans for the films they took were very interesting.

The things she said about me
weren’t very pleasant to listen to. She
was especially uncomplimentary about my manly presence to which I was offended
greatly.

At the appointed time I
called to tell her I had become deathly sick and couldn’t make it. She told Sam later it was just as well for she
didn’t know if she could have stomached it having sex with me anyhow.

So the plot was laid out
before us and I wondered what was coming next although I suspected what going
to follow.

First off Joe was invited to
come over to Sam’s house by Marilyn. She
said he could spend the night if he wanted. He nixed the overnight thing but rushed right
over.

When he got there Sam was waiting
there with Marilyn. Sam said to Joe, “Come in we
are just going to watch a movie.” He sat
Joe down and gave him his favorite drink and started what he described as a
home movie he had took.

They watched the
whole evening Joe had with Marilyn leaving nothing out. Sam backed up the tape on the part where Joe
was telling her our plan to see if we could compromise her.

Sam stood up and said I don’t
know what to say to you, my friend, or so I thought you were. Sam then left the room and Marilyn was alone
with him.

She said that Sam had done
the filming unbeknownst to her.

With the same skills she
carried off her part of what was turning out to be nothing more than a scam.

They had agreed to sell the
tapes to each of the men for an exorbitant price other wise a copy would be
sent to their wives and also to the club.

Each of the men agreed to
their terms but said they needed a little time to come up with the money.

I did enter the conversation
once again when Sam and she was figuring out how much money they were going to get
from what they called the “Saps.”

She said I wished he,
speaking of me would have come over for we could have got more money from him
than all others all put together.

When I was sure that there
was no further need for the equipment, Billy and I went over, while they were
gone and retrieved Billy’s cameras and also took the paraphernalia and stuff
they used to trap Joe and the boys.

Shortly after this I sent Sam
and Marilyn a copy of all their conversations about how they were going to scam
the boys and suggested that they forget the whole thing and perhaps they should
move on to greener pastures otherwise they would have to explain the whole
thing to the D.A.

The guys were confused by
then when they wouldn’t accept the payment of the requested money and each of
them received their tapes.

Since no one knew of my part
in being able to expose them and the resulting actions that followed, they
never mention what happened to them.

Later I heard Sam and Marilyn
had been convicted of scamming an old widow and were enjoying incarceration.

Billy kept the tapes for a
number of years till he was cleaning out stuff he didn’t need and he destroyed
them.

My wife had come across them some
time after the event and viewed them. She
said that she always wondered why I insisted we cancel our membership in that
club for my explanations seem to be weak.

Is there a moral to this
story? I don’t really know. Let’s just say being naïve and simple isn’t always
a bad thing.